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Most politicians are born with a congenital inability to admit that they don’t know something. Gary Johnson is not most politicians.
The Libertarian candidate for president and former New Mexico governor made headlines last month when he made it clear he was unfamiliar with Aleppo, the divided Syrian city ravaged by civil war.
Since then, he has endured a couple more “Aleppo moments” (his own phrase), when he failed to name a single foreign leader in a television interview and wouldn’t identify North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, in a chat with the New York Times.read more

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